COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL NOVELS
PREFACE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
THE WITCH OF SALEM.
HISTORICAL INDEX.
CHRONOLOGY.
The Witch of Salem
Columbian
Historical
Novels
By JOHN R. MUSICK
With Reading Courses
Being a Complete History of theUnited States from the Time ofColumbus to the Present Day
One Hundred Photogravures, Half-Tone Plates,Maps of the Periods and NumerousPen-and-Ink Drawings, byF. A. CARTER
THE R. H. WHITTEN COMPANY
New York Los Angeles
Copyright, 1906, by
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
William Penn making his treaty of peace and friendship with the Indians
COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL NOVELS
VOLUME VII
THE WITCH OF SALEMorCredulity Run Mad
by
JOHN R MUSICK
Illustrations byFREELAND A. CARTER
THE R. H. WHITTEN COMPANYNew York Los AngelesCopyright, 1893, by the
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[Registered at Stationers' Hall, London, Eng.]
Printed in the United States
PREFACE.
It is a difficult task to go back to ages by-gone,to divest ourselves of what we know and are andform a clear conception of generations that havebeen, of their experiences, objects, modes of life,thought and expression. It is a task better suitedto the novelist than the historian, and even theformer treads on dangerous ground in attemptingit. One of the prime objects of the ColumbianHistorical Novels is to give the reader as clear anidea as possible of the common people, as well asof the rulers of the age. The author has endeavoredat the risk of criticism to clothe thespeeches of his characters in the dialect and idiomspeculiar to the age in which they li